Dear Reader,It seems to me that, if people do what is in their best interest’s. Then we can assume that people don’t do what is not in their best interest’s.
Take for example the politician who’s entire constituency is the poor or disadvantaged (P&D). It is in that politician’s best interest’s for there to be a great many P&D. Many P&D magnify the power of said politician. So the inverse is also true that very few P&D would probably loose this politician his/her seat. Few constituents mean few votes.
It would be in this politician’s best interest’s to enact policies that would increase the number of P&D. When those policies appear, (on an emotional level), to help the P&D, all the better. We have a situation where a politician is using Machiavelli’s maxim “a wise Prince [politician] thinks of a way that his subjects rely on him for everything and in every way will insure their loyalty,”
Therefore, it would be against this politician’s best interest’s to enact policies that serve to decrease the number of P&D. Again Machiavelli’s maxim that “the end justifies the means.” Both quotes from “The Prince” Niccolo’s treatise on how to be an effective tyrant.
Wise for a Prince but is it wise for politician?
